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Sub-Order III.— LONICEEE^l. 



Corolla more or less tubular, often irregular and somewhat 

 bilabiate. Style elongated, filiform ; stigmas 3, free or united into 

 one. Fruit usually a berry with 1 to 3 or many seeds, more rarely 

 a dry capsule. 



Shrubs, frequently climbing, or herbs ; leaves sometimes connate 

 at the base ; flowers on axillary peduncles, or verticillate in terminal 

 racemes or heads. 



GENUS IV- L O N I C E R A. Linn. 



Calyx-limb 5-toothed. Corolla trumpet-shaped or funnel-shaped 

 or bell-shaped, irregular, the limb divided into 2 lips, the 

 upper with 4, the lower with 1 lobe ; lobes equal in length, 

 varying in the degree in which the lower one is separated from the 

 other 4. Stamens 5. Style filiform, with a capitate or 3-lobed 

 stigma. Fruit a juicy berry, 3-celled, or 1-celled by the obliteration 

 of the partitions ; cells few-seeded. 



Twining or erect shrubs with entire sessile or sub-sessile leaves, 

 which are sometimes connate. Flowers yellow or whitish, some- 

 times tinged with red or purple exteriorly, in terminal heads often 

 with verticillasters beneath them, or in pans on short axillary 

 peduncles. 



This genus of plants was named after Adam Lonicer, a physician of Frankfort, 

 who was born in 1528 and died in 15S6. 



Section I.— CAPRIFOLITTM. Linn. 



Stems climbing. Flowers sessile, in 1 or 2 or more whorls, in 

 the axils of free or connate bracts towards the extremity of the 

 flowering - shoots. Calyx-limb persistent. Corolla-tube sub- 

 cylindrical. 



SPECIES I.— IONICEEA C APRIPOLIUM. Linn. 



Plate DCXLI. 



Belch. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MCLXXIII. Figs. 1, 2, 3. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 247. 



Stems twining. Leaves deciduous, glabrous, glaucous beneath ; 

 those of the barren branches shortly stalked, suborbicular, oval or 

 obovate ; those on the flowering-shoots oblong, connate. Bracts 

 foliaceous, large, connate, glabrous ; bractioles very minute, scale- 



